"Given that food safety capacity building, such as laboratory testing, has historically been under-resourced in the region, training has been at the core of APEC’s strategy to improve food safety."

Steve McCutcheon, Co-Chair of the APEC Food Safety Cooperation Forum

“As a result of this training, the three different institutions, covering public health, fisheries and agriculture, committed to create unified protocols and standard microbiology methods which can be applied across all laboratories”